World through the aperture

Ice covers the Lake Michigan shoreline in Chicago, Illinois, the US, on January 30, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

A selection of photos shot recently from around the world:

A child (L) reacts in front of a dragon-shaped installation ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year at a plaza in Huangshan, Anhui Province, China, on January 30, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)Indian fishermen lay their fishing nets in Brahmaputra River in Guwahati, India, at sunset on January 30, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Kachin women attend the Myanmar Ethnics Culture festival in Yangon, Myanmar, on January 29, 2019. (Photo by AFP)A dog walker strolls past a windmill on Bidston Hill in Birkenhead, northwestern England, on January 30, 2019. (Photo by AFP)A man feeds seagulls at Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan, on January 30, 2019. (Photo by AFP)People drive their cars on a snowy road and a highway (bottom) near the French border with Luxembourg, in Zoufftgen, France, on January 30, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Customers choose flowers at the annual Lunar New Year fair in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong, on January 30, 2019, ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays. (Photo by AFP)An aerial view shows a technician of French national electricity grid company Enedis repairing high-voltage cables in Lugon-et-l'Ile-du-Carnay, southwestern France, on January 30, 2019, after the storm Gabriel hit France overnight. (Photo by AFP)A Pakistani man drives a horse-drawn carriage loaded with foam sheets on a street in Lahore, Pakistan, on January 29, 2019. (Photo by AFP)